Pippyroo - your experience will depend on your expectations... Gems is a large and successful educational services company with consumer offerings of a range of qualities at different price points. If you think of comparison to a chocolate company it is a solid and competitive mass market one like Nestle KitKat or Cadbury Dairy Milk. If you are used to Green & Blacks you may find your consumer experience at the GWA Al Khail school lacks richness and maybe their GEMS Nations Academy would be more to your taste or competitors Foremarke or Repton among others - its a matter of taste and budget.
To stretch the comparison a little more, the not-for-profits (DESS JESS, Jebel Ali etc) are the regional specialist craft producers - harder to source, appearance not as refined but ultimately fulfil the requirement very well and are cost effective.
Hope that flight of fancy is helpful! ?
Yes please! I'm desperate for feedback on this school. I've got two kids starting here from a British prep school in August and my instinct is telling me it was a bad choice.
My daughter will be joining GWA from Jan-2016 in year 2. Can I please have some honest feedback from existing GWA Al Khail parents on this forum?
Thank you in advance.